{"id":1031,"date":"2012-03-07T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2012-03-07T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:18:54","slug":"epp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"EPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English Paper Piecing (EPP) is something I have seen but never tried. However Katy from I&#8217;m a <a title=\"I'm a Ginger Monkey\" href=\"http:\/\/imagingermonkey.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ginger Monkey<\/a> (I know, I know, she&#8217;s mentioned on this blog every few minutes&#8230; I admit it, I find her incredibly inspirational) has been very busy paper piecing the most wonderful <a title=\"Spring Carnival Cushion\" href=\"http:\/\/imagingermonkey.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/spring-carnival.html\" target=\"_blank\">cushion covers<\/a> and <a title=\"Spring Carnival Quilt Top\" href=\"http:\/\/imagingermonkey.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/spring-carnival-templates.html\" target=\"_blank\">quilt<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>Curious I went on the hunt for some nice shapes to try out EPP and found the tumbling block. It makes a lovely star shape when sewn together and that is what I did. I didn&#8217;t like it. I probably would have loved it if I had done it scrappy but I did it all pink and as I looked at it I felt bored and uninspired.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1035\" title=\"Tumbling Block Star\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1210-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out came the seam ripper and the star was no more. I then started playing with the shapes and colours until I found a pattern I liked. Sorry about the bad pictures but they were taken late at night on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1036\" title=\"Tumbling Blocks\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1212-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next I decided to add some white in the centre and also use the white to frame all the blocks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1218.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1037\" title=\"Tumbling Block Hexagon\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1218-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"826\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sewing together my tumbling blocks every time I have a spare moment and the project is growing rapidly. This is going to be a cushion cover and it&#8217;s going to be mine. Little Miss Bossy-Boots has tried to claim it but this time I&#8217;m not giving in. Hands off, it&#8217;s mine! Mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Paper Piecing (EPP) is something I have seen but never tried. However Katy from I&#8217;m a Ginger Monkey (I know, I know, she&#8217;s mentioned on this blog every few minutes&#8230; I admit it, I find her incredibly inspirational) has been very busy paper piecing the most wonderful cushion covers and quilts. Curious I went&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=1031\">Continue Reading EPP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,62],"tags":[188,245,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}